Dmitry Yakubovskiy
Dmitry Olegovic Yakubovskiy Russian: Дмитрий Олегович Якубовский ; born September 5, 1963 in Bolschevo, Moscow Region, UDSSR) is a businessperson.
Biography
Family
Dmitry Olegovic Yakubovskiy was born in the town of Bolschevo in the Moscow Region. His father worked in the army and served under the Strategic Missile Command as Lieutenant Colonel (OTL) and engineer. He died at the age of 42 as a result of an at that time common medical malpractice. He was buried at the holy cemetery of Troitse Sergiyeva Lavra. His mother and youngest brother live in Canada since 1991 and have obtained the Canadian Citizenship. The middle brother is a Swiss citizen and president and owner of Volero Zürich and lives in Zürich Dmitry Yakubovskiy stands in his twelfth marriage and has four children. He has been able to maintain an amicable relationship to all his ex-wives. Dmitry Yakubovskiy now lives and works in Russia and Switzerland (Engelberg).
Career
After Dmitry Yakubovskiy finished secondary school he entered the higher military school of the Strategic Missile Command. After attending one year he was discharged as he did not receive the authorization to continue his studies (reason being that his mother is Jewish). With this ruling he was downgraded to a normal soldier and mustered for duty in the Soviet Army After he completed his term of service Dmitry Yakubovskiy held various positions in the Soviet Union. Amongst others in the Department of Public Prosecution, in Grossnab (State Committee of Material-Technical Supply, Russian: Госснаб СССР), the Moscovite Council of Public Prosecution, the District Attorney of the City of Moscow (Administration Manager) and as Secretary of the Presidium of the Advocate of the Soviet Union.
In 1990, Dmitry Yakubovskiy was appointed as new head of the Task Force of the Ministry of Defense (Western Troops of the UdSSR) (Germany). Not after long he was relieved of this duty after multiple complaints from the Germans were filed as he was too active in recording dormant asset claims in favor of the UdSSR. After leaving the Task Force he worked as a representative of Agrochim (Ex-Departement of Agriculture) in the city of Basel, Switzerland.
The first putsch in Russia of 1991 lead him to move to Canada. He returned to Russia shortly after in March 1992.
At 28 he was already advisor to the administration of the Russian Federation, advisor to the Prosecutor Generals Office in constitutional law, consultant to the Criminal Investigation Office of the Internal Affairs Ministry and Deputy Head of the Central Administration of the Radiorazvedka, the federal Agency of Information and Government Alliance (ex Main Department 8, KGB of the UdSSR). Dmitry Yakubovskiy was designated as Head of the Legal Department of the Special Information Service. As a result of a clash with the Head of the Security Service of the President, A.V. Korzhakov, and the future Director of the FSB, M.I. Barsukov, however, he was relieved of all his duties and expelled from the country.
During the second coup, 1993, he participated alongside the Russian President.[1] In December 1994 however, he was arrested and accused of involvement in stealing books out of the Russian National Library in St.Petersburg. Even during his detention in jail (Kresty Jail in St.Petersburg) he was again convicted to 4 years of prison. This time they blamed him with "assault on a candidate athlete". This sentence he served too (in the city of Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk Region, in a special zone for former employees of the Justice- and Service Departements)
He was released in December 1998 and rehabilitated in 2001.
Dmitry Yakubovskiy continued to work as a lawyer and defended, amongst other important businessmen, the ex-wife of the major of St.Petersburg. One of his most important cases was to represent a group of shareholders in their fight against Alpha Bank. He anchored the TV series "Arrest and Freedom" which aired on REN TV. 2007 he began a partnership with the public subsidiary structure AFK (System) of Vladimir Evtuschenko. Since 2009 he's partner of VTB Bank and chairman of the board of directors of VTB Real Estate.
Academic assignments
Yakubovskiy taught at the Moscow Academy for International Law and Economics and worked at the Professorship of Advocacy and Human Rights. He is the Head of the Chairmanship of the First Moscovite Lawyers Council.
References
- ↑ Khinshtein, Alexander (2006). Ельцин, Кремль: история болезни [Yeltsin, the Kremlin: a case history]. Olma Media Group. p. 474. ISBN 9785373003575.